unhallow

verb

unhallow

verb

Etymology From un- + hallow.

1

To rended un-hallowed, i.e. to profane; to desecrate.

  • Nay, the very Ostentation of the Thorn, is a Weakness, and I might have said a Vice too; for the Vanity Unhallows the very Virtue, especially where it is Accompany'd with Detraction.1692, Sir Roger L'Estrange, “Fable CCCCLXVI: A Fig-Tree and a Thorn”, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists, page 441:

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